Moving OS and files from 1 SSD to another, then purging the old SSD.

Toggle sidebar Toggle sidebar
U

username8

Commendable
Oct 24, 2016
3
0
1,510
Greetings, I recently got a new SSD that's a lot bigger than my old one that's running out of space. What I want to do is move everything over to the new one and then delete everything from the old one.
This would be a simple task except for the part where the old drive is where windows is installed and I don't have CD-ROM drive, nor do I have the windows installation disk for that matter.

What I did was I used "AOMEI Backupper Standard" to clone the old SSD and move all data to the new one, but I'm not certain if the program just made links to the C or if everything on the new drive is stand-alone. If everything is stand-alone, I figured it would be fine to completely wipe the C drive clean and continue like nothing has changed, except a 700gb bump in storage on the drive that I'm booting from.

Any thoughts?
 
Solution
hang-the-9
You may need to edit the game configurations to change the save file locations, or just copy them over to the new drive from the old one once it's setup.

System should boot just fine off the cloned drive though, as long as the replacement drive is on the same drive connection as the original drive.

Maybe contact AOMEI support, you may need to change a setting during cloning.
Sort by date Sort by votes
U

username8

Commendable
Oct 24, 2016
3
0
1,510


All files seem to work and launch properly from the new drive but when I unplugged the old one Windows wouldn't boot, instead it asked for a disc to launch repair. Is there a way around this?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
hang-the-9

hang-the-9

Titan
Mar 25, 2010
60,387
1,081
152,940


Did you move the new drive to the location of the old one? Was the system originally setup with two hard driver or just one?
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
U

username8

Commendable
Oct 24, 2016
3
0
1,510


I'm not sure what you mean when it comes to the location of the old one, I unplugged the old drive and turned on the computer with the new one connected as usual, went into the bios to set the boot order, save&restart and I got the error message.

My main reason for switching from my current SSD is because it's getting filled with save files from video games, caches from various programs and such. It dawned on me that a much simpler way of getting rid of THAT problem would be to set the "Documents" location to the new disk, would that work? All my games are installed on a HDD but configuration files, save files and the like always get saved in C:\Users\%UserName%\Documents, if I would just change the location to D:\Documents\, would that work?

Thank you for being so patient with me.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
hang-the-9

hang-the-9

Titan
Mar 25, 2010
60,387
1,081
152,940
You may need to edit the game configurations to change the save file locations, or just copy them over to the new drive from the old one once it's setup.

System should boot just fine off the cloned drive though, as long as the replacement drive is on the same drive connection as the original drive.

Maybe contact AOMEI support, you may need to change a setting during cloning.
 
Upvote 0 Downvote
Solution
You must log in or register to reply here.

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page

COMPANY
RESOURCES
FOLLOW
Top Bottom